Ravinder Kumar, Male, Plant Pathologist born on 15th July, 1979 at Bijnor, UP, India. He did his BSc (Ag) from Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, MSc (Plant Pathology) and Ph.D. (Plant Pathology) from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture & Technology: Meerut, UP, India. He joined Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) of Government of India at ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, HP, India. Presently he is working as Sr. Scientist at the Division of Plant Protection, ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, India and his area of research is Plant Pathology. His present project is 'Diagnosis and management of viral diseases of potato'. He was Principal Investigator of Accredited lab for virus indexing under National Certification System for tissue culture raised plants funded by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. He has over 15 years of research experience in the management of biotic and abiotic stresses in plants, plant biotechnology, specifically the formulation of dsRNA for plant diseases, the development of transgenic lines against pathogen resistance, plant genetic resource management, molecular characterization, and genome sequencing of plant pathogens. He was associated in developing infectious clones of virus isolates for virus resistance testing.